On Feb. 2, President Obama made some peculiar remarks during a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast held in Washington DC, with his esteemed guests, the 14th Dalai Lama and NASCAR Hall of Famer Darrell...
On Sunday, Feb. 1, the Islamic State released a video showing the execution of the second Japanese hostage, Kenji Goto, a war correspondent whose work often focused on the suffering of families and children...
The Pentagon announced on Jan. 8 that it would be ending operations at 15 sites in Europe, including an air base in Britain and several facilities in Germany, a move projected to save $500 million...
What do Turks, Kurds, Syrian Arabs and Iraqi Arabs have in common? They were once part of the same country, the Ottoman Empire. Today, one of these groups is not like the others—the Kurds did not get...
The United States and allies have begun conducting airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria, and Congress has authorized $500 million to train and equip “moderate” Syrian rebels. Curiously,...
At a speech in Estonia earlier this month, President Barack Obama asserted that “[t]he defense of Tallinn and Riga and Vilnius is just as important as the defense of Berlin and Paris and London.”...
The Iraq question is back a third time and worse than ever. It would be difficult for any American president to admit that promoting democracy abroad is the wrong course of action, but it is time...
The right to bear arms is under fire as per usual and by none other than Michael Bloomberg, for whom gun control has been an important issue for quite some time.
The plutocrat and former mayor of...
As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict rolls into another year, a fresh round of U.S.-sponsored negotiations are being hammered out between the conflicting sides. The deadline for some kind of framework...
After three months of civil unrest and government oppression, many people worry the crisis in Ukraine has the potential to escalate into an open conflict. Anti-government protestors have taken to the...
In his 1968 encyclical “Humanae Vitae,” Pope Paul VI made several predictions about the effects of widespread artificial contraceptive use. He believed it would result in a lowering of moral standards,...
When it comes to climate change, I cannot help but feel a certain sense of pessimism. Environmentalist eschatology tells us that climate change will usher in a millenarian age of severe droughts, worsening...
